Category: COME HOME TO THE COUNTRY

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My Never-Give-Up Tree

While we are on the subject of trees (given my previous post took you on a little tour of Calingarry Crossing’s autumn stunners) I thought I’d share with you a special tree, found  little closer to home.

I call it the never-give-up tree and if you look closely you will see why.

Whenever I start telling myself I’ve had enough, I’m wasting my time, I’ll never achieve what I want, I take a walk to my special tree and I am reminded that no matter how tough it gets, if you fight back, stay strong and positive, you will keep growing.

(Take a closer look and you’ll see this little tree was chopped down years ago. But it re-sprouted from the cut-off trunk and is now a little wonder. I love it.)

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How to wash a chook!

I learned two things this week.

  1. How to wash a chook (and yes that is Nifti he is using!) and
  2. How to set up my own URL/website.

It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally purchased my author URL (yes, www.jennjmcleod.com is all mine –ha ha, he he, ha ha), decided between Blogger, WordPress or a traditional/designer website, found a hosting company (that has great support I must add – I need it!) and overcome a few tinsey wincey mind-blowing bloody awful technical issues (all brought on by me trying to be clever -which I clearly am not when it comes to what I’m told is my ‘back-end’!)

Speaking of backends. This requires SARD spray (not Nifti) when dealing with the washing a chook process.

So I now have clean chooks and my very own website.

I will terminate my other blogs and focus on manipulating this site until I have it just right.

To those few faithful followers, pls don’t desert me now (like the chooks have LOL)

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Chicken, egg or book contract?

Which one comes first?

Sadly, I can confirm that it’s not the book contract 🙁

It’s the chicken.

I know this because my chooks, Benny and Flo, (that stands for Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine) came into our lives 26 weeks ago and today they presented us with their first eggs.

So what does this have to do with trying to get my novel published?

Well, after hearing the groans and cackles coming from the coop this morning I found footage of a chicken laying an egg on – you guessed it – U-Tube. Yikes!

Talk about an impossible feat – as impossible as getting published.

Still, I look forward to laying my novel before a publisher soon and cracking the big time before I become too scrambled in the head from all the brick walls I keep hitting. LOL